1921 12 27 Richard Wiles to Lloyd Andrews

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301 W. Paradise 
                                            Orrville, Ohio
                                            Dec 27, 1921                                                                       

Dear Lloyd,

I will write you a

few lines to tell you I had

a merry Christmas.

I enjoyed your hikery nuts

very well and I thank

you ever so much.

 Well I suppose you want

to know what I got for

Xmas.  Well I got a steam

engine, a sweater, a knife,

a necktie, a Bang Bird

game, Pollyanna game, a hand

kerchief, a belt, a book, a

box of candy, a box of

wild cherry candy.

Well that is all.

Sincerely yours,

Richard Wiles

come down and see us

1855 09 01 James W. Carrick to Mary Jane Andrews McFarland

                                                                                    

Harrison County  September 1^st 1855

Respected friends    I now sit down according to promise

 to inform you that I got home on wensday evening before

 sundown   the first day I drove to New Philadelphia which was

 between 45 and 50 miles   I found the family all well in middling

 health  Wm is complaining a little with the headache   our

 people got a letter from Steward and Ellen  the day that we

 left home  they are both in middling  good health  they have got

 back to Illinois  they expect to be home the fore part of October

  we have been verry busy thrashing yesterday and the day before

 and I had not time to write till this morning and I do not intend

 to write much for the breakfast is nearly ready and Mary

 Ellen is going to town as soon as she eats   you can tell aunt

 Peggy that Jacob Riggle and Mary Ann has come back bag and baggage

 and she is shaking with the ague   they are going to live in one end

 of the house with Ezra Thompson and Jacob is going to farm

 old John Matson’s place    Sarah wants you to come in with

William and aunt Peggy   She says she wants to see you badly

     But I must close give my bes respects to all the family    no more

 at present but remains yours  [……..]  JW Carrick

 to Miss Mary Jane Andrews

                        PS I intend to write to Steward

 in a few days and see if he will come home by your country

 or not  I understand that Ellen wrote to Nancy McLaughlin

 that they had promised to come home past Logan and aunt susan

 kerr    Wm Kerrs widow was to come home with them if that is the

 case it is likely that they will come strait through and

 not make any stop

Second page

Tell aunt Peggy that I got along very well by myself

   I did not get asleep and fall out of the buggy

I never felt a bit sleepy

1855 07 30 James W. Carrick to niece Mary Jane Andrews McFarland

                                                          








1855     July 30th

Dear friends I now sit down to write a few lines

 to let you know that we are all well at present hoping

 that these few lines may find you all enjoying the same

 blessing   I received your letter may the 4^th and was glad

 to hear that you were all well and I am verry sorry that

 I have been so negligent as not to have written to you

 sooner but I have been verry busy this summer and I hope

 that by promising to do better for the time to come that

 you will excuse me         Steward and Ellen left home the 15^th

 of may to visit Illinois and  Iowa   we have had several

 letters from them   they found the friends there all well except

 aunt nancy Parr  she has pretty good health but is verry

 much crippled with the rumatism   she has not walked a step

 for three years and has become quite lean and poor    I

 received a letter from Steward a few days ago and Ellen had

 had a little brush of sickness but was getting about again  they

 are both verry much pleased with the country and the  talk

 of moving there.  they do not expect to be at home till the

 fall  we have had a verry wet season  a great deal of rain and high

 watter   we have had a middling crop of wheat but it has been

 so wet that we cannot get it into the barn and it is growing in

 the shock   it has rained every day for two weeks and it is raining

  to day    there is a great deal of hay down and it is pretty much all

 lost   we have good crops of corn and oats    the oats is all lying down

 and will have to be cut with a sickle

[Second page]

the friends are all well unkle david is still putting

 off that suit from time to time and what will be the result

 I cannot tell  it is still part of at his expense where the money

 is to come from to pay the costs is more than I can tell

      I have it in contemplation to go out to your country after

 harvest with aunt peggy but I am afraid that the harvest

 will be so late that there will not be time and there has

 been so much high watter and so many bridges swept away

that I am afraid that the waters cannot be crossed if we

 do go it will be some time yet as we are not near done with

 our harvest    aunt peggy has better health this summer than she had

 last    she is able to ride on horseback some and she can

 walk about and has better use of her hands than she had last

 fall and winter     she has a good appetite for her victuals

       it has been very healthy here this summer  there has been a great

 deal of thunder and lighting and a great deal of high watter

  it injured our plank road a great deal   some four or five of

 the bridges is washed off    as this is a wet afternoon I thought

 I would sit down and write a few lines to you and I want

 to know if I should take aunt Peggy out   if there would be

 any chance of any of you to fech her home in the fall  she

 says that she would rather not stay all winter as she

 would like to be at home when Steward and Ellen comes

 home    she would like to know before she leaves home       write

 us a few lines as soon as you get this and then we

will know better how to arang business befor she starts

no more at present but remains yours ……

Mary Jane Andrews                                                                                          James W Carrick

1854 06 08 James W. Carrick to Lavinia Carrick Andrews

                                              






  Harrison County  Ohio  June the 8^th 1854

                        Dear Sister  I now sit down to write a few lines to

 you to let you know that we are all well at present except aunt

 peggy   she has a very severe attack of inflamitory rumatism

  she has been confined for a bout three weeks   the first two she

 had to be lifted inn and out of the bed like a child  she could

 not even eat her own meat but had to be fed like a child

   she is now some better  she can sit up a little and walk from

 her bed out to the fire with one to assist her     the doctor says

 that it will be som time before she gets clear of it as it is a

 very tedious lingering complaint and he says she must be

 verry carefull of her self and not be exposed to wet or cold

 as she may have a relaps the rest of the friends are al well

    I received a letter from David dated March the 30^th in which

 in answer to the one that I rote a short time before he wrote

 that you were satisfied with the disposition of unkle johns

 property and that if the will was broke it would be

 don with out your consent and with out your assistance

 but I see in our paper that thear is a bill filled in which

 you and others are plaintiffs and me and others are defendants

 and I have heard just lately that you wrote to David that you

 were not satisfied and I suppose on the strenth of that he

  made use of your name    now if this be true it seems to me

 to be verry strange but I would like to know the

 certainty of it and I hope that you will let me know as soon

 as convenient   it makes no particular difference to me only

 just for my own satisfaction I would like to know what

 representation he made to you about the disposition of the

 property as he has been representing it in a verry different

 light from what it actually is and he may have deceived

you in order to get you to help him    if my memory serves

 me wright I think  I wrote you not to have any thing to do

 in the case as you would be as well of[f] if the will was broke

 as though you had assisted and if not you would loos nothing

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David said in his letter that you wanted to know what aunt

 pegs idea was in going to Illinois whether on a visit or to stay

    she had no idea of staying anny longer than fall or till

 she would me[e]t with a good chance of coming back again

    I intended to take her out to see you and stay awhile this summer

 but the prospect for her going is very dull at this time    I

intended to go about the middle of may but she took

 the rumatism and concequently was not able to go     perhaps

 after harvest or in  the fall if she gets better we will go

     I want you to rite as soon as you get this letter

 and let us know how you are getting along but I must

 close    excuse my bad writing for I have wrote in a hurry

    give our best respects to all the family and to John and

 his wife       no more at present  yours affectionately

                                                                                                                        J W Carrick

PS I send you the bill as it is in the paper

and if you request it I will send you a copy of the will

1858 09 26 James W. Carrick Andrews to his mother Lavinia Carrick Andrews

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Beaver dam  Sept the 26th 1858

Dear Mother and Brothers I sit down once more to
write a few lines to  you to let you know
how we all are for I have got tired waiting
for an answer to the rest of my letters  this
is the third one I have wrote to you and
still no answer so this will be the last one
until I get an answer

We are all in reasonable health at the present
time  Rebecca is getting a considerable stouter than
she was in the fore part of the summer   she
is able to do her own work now Amos
has the ague now for a few days past but the
rest of us is well  with the exception of a
few of the biggest biles [boils]  that I have got
 they are not so numerous as Jobs but a great
deal sorer in my opinion

I have not heard any thing from Dan and
Mary Jane  for about five weeks but they
were all well the last time I heard from them
 --the health of the country is just middling
there is a considerable of the ague around through
the country but that is about all the
kind of sickness there is as yet =

The crops of wheat was verry poor here
this harvest wheat turned out the porest
I ever saw  ther was hardly an average of
12 bushels to the acre in consequence of the

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 rust Oats is no crop atall   lots of fields
was not cut atall   Corn is just a middling
crop  potatoes is only about half crop and
hardly that wheat sells at about 90 cts
to $1.00 per bushel.  Oats would sell at about
45 cts per bu if there was any to sell
  corn none  in market as yet-
times is the hardest here in consequence of
money matters I ever saw   evry man that
owes a cent is duned for it and there is
not produce enough in the country to
pay peoples debt   there is some of the ablest
farmers in the country that cannot pay there
debts and some of the best of our merchants
is broke up  -- I want you to write
whether John  has gone to Michigan yet
or not -

Now David the last letter that I received
from you you wrote that you never had
received any acknowledgement of that money
that you sent with Mary Jane
 I would just say that I sent you a
note in a letter long ago and if you did not
get it I want you to let me know and I will
send you another note

[Third page]

Now David you wanted to know the least
I would take for my interest in the old place
I would just say that I will sell lower now
than I ever would before on account of the times
being so hard here and I am some in debt and
I am tired of being craved (?) and I have nothing
to make money out of this fall and every
debt that I owe will have to be paid this fall
Now David you and William see what is the
best you can do by me this fall and let
me know and I will go in just as soon as you
let me know and we will draw writings  I can
go in and stay about one week and we can fix it
all except Rebeccas signing it and that can be
done at some other time next spring for
instance when you come out

Now David I want you to write immediately
and let me know whether it will be worth
my while to come or not so that I will
have time to fix and go before cold weather

So no more at present but remains your
son and Brother   James C Andrews to
                       David Andrews and all the rest

Write soon    Rebecca sends her best respects to Mother and all the rest

P S I traded horses twice and I have now got a
mare four years old last spring  handsome as a picture
 even- up for old nell, worth one hundred and ten dollars

I like to have forgotten to tell you
that the fly is eating up the early
sowed wheat   Robert Reed and Nathaniel
Paxton is agoing to commence to plow
up theirs tomorrow morning and sow
it over and many others                   

1851 11 06 Eleanor Carrick to Lavina Carrick Andrews

                                                                                                





November the 6^th 1851

Respected aunt         I now sit down according to promise

 to let you know how we got home -  we got to berlin the night we left

 your house - found uncle James friend living in the town -  he has

 got a very fine woman for a wife -  we got home on Thursday about

 11 o’clock -   we found the friends all well except uncle John -  he had

 been struck with something like the palsy about two weeks before

 we got home    he thinks he is some better but has never walked any yet

 only by shoving a chair before him -  he can go to bed - my health is

very good  [stewards ?] has been poorly with a bad cold and sore throat

 but has got better - Uncle John received a letter from aunt mary

 […..] during our absence -  she states that they are all well and

 doing well - she says been to wisconsin she has spending a few months

 with her daughter - they are well  she says mary has six children - two sons

 and four daughters - Jane has two sons and a daughter and  James

 has a son which makes her five grand sons and five grand daughters

 - she says mary robisons oldest girl came home with her to stay all winter

 - James and his wife is still living in the house with them but expects

 to go to themselves in the spring - uncle dave is still in cadiz them

 and maria has gone into partnership and is keeping boarders you

 […..] what a wide swath ant Betsey will cut -  they have got a web  of

 carpet a  [……] and a web(?) of muslin  a place they expect to furnish

 some nine or ten beds with clothes-   you know that will take considerable

 of them - they have rented a house    at one hundred and 25 dollars per

year -  ant betsy was down here several days laying in provisions

 such as molasses and preserves - she spread [r]ound at a terrible rate when

 she came down and  afronted aunt peggy very much  so that  I

 think she wont bother them soon again but I suppose they will get

 so independent that they will not look at the likes of us after awhile

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Samuel [hanaber ?] folks are all well  he has bought a place in

 Coshocton county and will move in the spring I suppose  -  John

 is to be married next Thursday to miss munter - eliza jane is

 to be one of the attendants -father kerrs family is well  his own health

 is much better than it was when we left home - william  Campbell

  is better  he is able to walk about some -  i have not seen him yet

  - mrs akins is beter   she can walk with crutches  mrs hagan and

 family are well   her daughter mary Johnson buried one of her

 children Sabbath day - the disease was hooping cough and worms

-  there is another of them sick but is better,   they are using

 what they call the galvanized battery with uncle John

 now – it is calculated to strengthen the nerves and remove the dead

 feeling he has in his limbs – he thinks he has more feeling in his

 legs since they began to use it  - ant peggy gets very lonesome at

 night when he was first taken – some of paps people staid with

 her all the time since we got home  she don’t get so lonesome

 – it may be he will get better and you may get to see him

 again in this  world but if things be ordered other ways we ought

 all to try and live so that when we are called from this world

 that we will be prepared meet  in a better  where parting will

 be no more -                   I must come to a close – my husband

 has hands husking corn this afternoon and I must

 go to getting supper -         answer this letter soon for we want to hear from you

                                                                                                Nothing more at present but remain your most affectionate niece                               

                                                                                                Eleanor Carrick                                  

                                                                                               

Lavina Anders [Andrews]